tell up neva, a historian and lecture in international history at the university of strafford clyde. welcome to dw. so what do you think president proven wanted to achieve with this so much? well, i think president clinton here is of course, grasping at straws because he is running really short on international allies. and the idea of the summit that because i'm at the, the way it was the original admission. what's the cost of the just that. but, you know, you can see, especially in comparison to the summit the few years ago, just how much with the last 2 and a but l a. c has now in comparison to the 1019, even in africa, where usually a russia has a lot of good will historically now to announced some major commitments at the summer from free grain to free weapons. but come, the actual russian economy affords a to make these uh promises. it's very, it's very hard to, to know all the details, of course, because a lot of these pronouncements quite restore it. cool. and that meant to kind of show up this alliances and bring in some of these countries to remain friends also on the interna